Is it possible that Ed Miliband is a worse Labour leader than Gordon Brown?
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter One of the fears of Tory activists in target seats is that if the… Read more »
The SNP claim an independent Scotland would be like a post-Soviet republic
By Mark WallaceFollow Mark on Twitter. The Scottish independence referendum may be a way off yet, but the headlines war has already… Read more »
Ed Miliband becomes Prime Minister and detests being Francois Hollande
By Andrew GimsonFollow Andrew on Twitter Six months in to what was proving to be an unhappy prime ministership, Ed Miliband… Read more »
The truth about Nick Clegg’s manifesto referendum pledge – and how he is breaking it
By Mark WallaceFollow Mark on Twitter The Lib Dems have been twisting and turning over the last few days to get out… Read more »
Europe, public spending, union power grabs…Labour have plenty of splits of their own
By Mark WallaceFollow Mark on Twitter The media is intent on a "Tory splits" narrative. Given the obsessive focus on any hint of… Read more »
Lord Adonis surfs the latest wave of LibLabLove
By Peter HoskinFollow Peter on Twitter For any Kremlinologists among us, Lord Adonis’s new book and his interview with today’s Guardian… Read more »
Labour’s growing civil war over candidate selection
Earlier in the week, I wrote about Len McCluskey's development of a "party within a party" of Unite MPs on… Read more »
Who do Labour MPs represent? The party, the voters or the unions?
By Mark WallaceFollow Mark on Twitter. Oh dear. It seems that having bailed out the Morning Star, a paper which has coincidentally… Read more »
No benefits without two years of NI. Work permits for all Europeans. No more single market. A populist right party? No – a Labour MP
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. Ed Miliband is unresponsive to voter concerns about welfare because his electoral base –… Read more »
The election story for Labour so far. Two steps back, one step forward.
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. YouGov's Peter Kellner warns wisely in the Guardian against reading today's results forwards into… Read more »
Ed Miliband’s fiscal flap is as nothing compared to Ed Balls’s fiscal falsehoods
By Peter HoskinFollow Peter on Twitter Thanks to the assiduity of Martha Kearney, Ed Miliband and his deficit enlargement plan are… Read more »
Back to the ’70s as Labour’s far left crank up for selection battles
I have discussed before the indulgent attitude that Ed Miliband takes towards the far left and also noted how blatant… Read more »
Poster wars, battle of the growth and borrowing figures
By Peter HoskinFollow Peter on Twitter Unsurprisingly, Labour aren’t letting the absence of a triple-dip hold them back. They’ve released an… Read more »
Miliband risks being written off as irresolute
By Andrew GimsonFollow Andrew on Twitter The Labour Party finds itself in the disconcerting position of being on only 35… Read more »
Thank you, Gordon Brown
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. A last word on the controversies over Margaret Thatcher's state-funeral-in-all-but-name. I believe that it… Read more »